The Gladney Center expands to Bulgaria

BETTY DILLARD

The Gladney Center for Adoption, one of the oldest and largest maternity homes and adoption agencies in the United States, has opened an inter-country adoption program in Bulgaria.

The Fort Worth-based nonprofit organization has partnered with an accredited Bulgarian agency to help place an estimated 8,700 orphans in the Southeastern European country into permanent homes.

According to Marshall Williams, senior vice president of international adoption for The Gladney Center, Bulgaria has more than 200 orphanages.

“It is Gladney’s mission to help these beautiful children find forever homes in the United States,” Williams said. “Helping one child at a time find their forever family is what we do.”

Currently, six families are enrolled in the Bulgaria program and will be ready to travel to Europe in a few months.

The center specializes in domestic and international adoptions and places children from Asian, African, Eastern European and Latin American countries.

Founded more than a century ago, The Gladney Center has placed more than 27,000 children for adoption and helped more than 37,000 women experiencing crisis pregnancies.

The agency’s programs include a residential facility, private medical care, counseling, legal services, educational opportunities, a career development program for birth mothers and post adoption services.

The Gladney Center has statewide regional offices in Dallas, Houston, Midland, as well as Greenville, N.C., and New York.